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(Telegraph) – HERE, at last, is the truth of what the Government really thought about immigration but never dared tell the electorate.

This Government has presided over the biggest inflow of immigrants in our history. In the past 12 years, three million immigrants have made the United Kingdom their home. Our society has been transformed and that transformation will continue. In 2008, a quarter of all births in England and Wales were to foreign-born mothers: in London, it was half. Our population, boosted by this immigration, is expected to reach 70 million by the middle of the century, and many towns in England (already the fifth most densely populated large country on the planet) are experiencing immense pressures on housing and welfare services as a consequence.

It has become commonplace to attribute all this to a catastrophic failure of policy by a Government that simply lost control of our borders. Now we learn that, to the contrary, it was all part of a plan – albeit a secret one – to change the social fabric of this country and make it, in the words of one official involved, “truly multicultural”. A policy document written in 2000 was so incendiary that it had to be bowdlerised before publication. The Migrationwatch think tank has, under a Freedom of Information request, obtained the unexpurgated original. It reveals Labour’s real agenda just as the floodgates were opening. The document notes that migration pressures would intensify, “but this should not be viewed as a negative”; trying to stem the flow would anyway “be very difficult (perhaps impossible)”; the Government had “both economic and social objectives for immigration policy”; the benefits included “a widening of consumer choice and significant cultural contributions”; entry controls, on the other hand, “can contribute to social exclusion”; and, most devastating of all, the previous policy of curbing immigration had “no economic or social justification”.

Here, at last, is the truth of what the Government really thought about immigration but never dared tell the electorate. There was also, for Labour, a handy political spin-off. Research by the Electoral Commission into the 2005 general election showed immigrants voted for Labour by overwhelming margins. Very convenient.

This explains why Opposition politicians who dared raise the issue were howled down by Labour for “playing the race card”. After these revelations, that must not happen in this year’s election – Tories, take note. This whole shameful episode has now come back to haunt Labour, for it is their MPs who are at risk from the resurgent popularity of the BNP among white working-class voters. That is their problem; the strain imposed on our social fabric by this duplicitous policy is ours.